Day 19 - Thursday 19/10/2006
Ok here's today’s (Thursday) story.
We had to wait for a convoy at Luxor. We finally left at 11 am. No problems and quite fast and good roads. Yet more dramatic scenery. The police seemed strangely nervous, should have known! Half way there the police decided to let us go on alone. Hmmm????? Had a great ride until 1 km outside Aswan where someone had decided to resurface the road. Great, except all they had done was pour molten tar, about 2 inches deep, all over the road. We lasted about 2km. I slid and fell, looked back to get NG to help pick up the bike only to see him sprawled in the tarmac. No damage to bikes I hope. We limped to a garage and cleaned up the bikes but we are black with tar! (Off road skills boys, how do u stay on in wet tar?) Anyway, we are camping on the banks of the Nile at Aswan. Somewhat lacking in amenities, ie absolutely nothing, but we have cooked pasta built a fire and had coffee. The Nile is literally 10 metres away. A huge water-rat has just scurried by, I’ll sleep with the tent shut tonight?
Bye for now.
NC
We had to wait for a convoy at Luxor. We finally left at 11 am. No problems and quite fast and good roads. Yet more dramatic scenery. The police seemed strangely nervous, should have known! Half way there the police decided to let us go on alone. Hmmm????? Had a great ride until 1 km outside Aswan where someone had decided to resurface the road. Great, except all they had done was pour molten tar, about 2 inches deep, all over the road. We lasted about 2km. I slid and fell, looked back to get NG to help pick up the bike only to see him sprawled in the tarmac. No damage to bikes I hope. We limped to a garage and cleaned up the bikes but we are black with tar! (Off road skills boys, how do u stay on in wet tar?) Anyway, we are camping on the banks of the Nile at Aswan. Somewhat lacking in amenities, ie absolutely nothing, but we have cooked pasta built a fire and had coffee. The Nile is literally 10 metres away. A huge water-rat has just scurried by, I’ll sleep with the tent shut tonight?
Bye for now.
NC
posted by Dutch Rob for Cotswolds2Capetown at 08:39
4 Comments:
NG, Sorry to hear about your(oil) spill. It could be worse, you could be in Tengiz where rioting between the locals and Turks have produced 8 fatalities (according to TH&T Ed)- whats even worse is that they have closed the Nelson as a precaution, the expats will be rioting next!
Keep well and hope your gout is better.
Mac in Bak
Water Rat with paprika, slowly bbq'd is quite nice with a mellow red.
Tar-Tar sauce also helps
way!!!! boys wats going on. FRONT BRAKE where was the control of your front brake!!!!!. nah hope u ur ok and make sure u show that F-offf water rat whos the daddy xxxxantx misssin u loadz dad from Ant and eddie
Good to hear that you are all okay - including the bikes. I've just given a talk to a group of primary school children, and told them all about you, I think there will be quite a number of new visitors to the site!
Keep safe
June from CLIC Sargent
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